Meaning of hundraårsregn | Babel Free

Definitioner

A hundred-year rain; a very large amount of rainfall that statistically has a 1% chance of occurring in any given year (i.e. once every hundred years on average).

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Exempel

“För tre år sedan drabbades Inger Nilsson i Kumla av ett regn som skapade översvämning i hennes hem, då sa man att det var ett hundraårsregn. Nu är hon drabbad igen.”

Three years ago, Inger Nilsson in Kumla was affected by a rainstorm that caused flooding in her home, at the time described as a once-in-a-century downpour. Now it has happened again.

“Hundraårsregnet – eller om man har riktig otur, tusenårsregnet – kan komma innan jobbet är klart. Det är en kamp mot klockan.”

The once-in-a-century rainstorm – or, with real misfortune, the once-in-a-millennium one – could strike before the work is finished. It's a race against time.

“Near-synonym: hundraårsflöde”

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